We’ve Never Heard Britney Spears Like This
The pop star wants to live on her own terms. To do that, she had to give one more brutal performance.
When typed out in full, the chilling speech that Britney Spears gave to a Los Angeles judge yesterday afternoon comes to more than 4,500 words. Those words are now circulating online as quotations about how Spears lived in “denial” about the legal and medical arrangement that has given other people control over her life for 13 years. She says this “abusive” conservatorship forced her to take debilitating medications, smothered her daily life, and forbade her from marrying and getting pregnant. She now wants freedom.
To really understand what happened yesterday, though, you should watch a few minutes of . You’ll see throngs of fans dressed in princess pink, rapt and crying as Spears’s speech . You’ll hear a voice familiar to a huge
